Download or read book The Inside City written by Anita Mir and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020 As India hurtles towards Partition, in Lahore's ancient inside city, Amrau Dar is not thinking about politics. She is waiting for a prediction about her son, Awais, to come true. Awais discovers not a secret garden but a secret city and his beloved sister, Maryam, discovers the world of maths. Fearing that the prediction has gone wrong, Amrau takes a series of decisions that will change all their lives. * 'The Inside City is a bold and vivid evocation of times and places on the fringes of our memories; a multi-patterned screen that reveals, through the secrets, mysteries, loves and tragedies of a multitude of characters, the inner life of a nation. A compelling and hugely entertaining debut.' – Aamer Hussein, author of Another Gulmohar Tree 'Brimming with compassion' – Mohammed Hanif, author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Download or read book Maryam s Wish written by Fariza Ahmadova and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many other girls, Maryam always dreamed of having a sister. One day, on her way home, Maryam met a girl called Shusha. Even though Shusha was not able to speak, she was able to hear. Maryam couldn’t leave Shusha alone on the cold street and so she took her with her. Slowly, despite the difficulties Mayram and Shusha grew into the closest friends. But then Shusha discovers a musical talent, which changes her life. Will Maryam’s and Shusha’s friendship overcome the difficulties? Discover a touching story in the heart of the Caucasus-Azerbaijan, revolving around four women. This book is about the importance of accepting societal differences.

Download or read book The Last Chapter written by Guila Garakani and published by Garnet Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youssef, Vaqar's eldest son, died in the same house he was born in; the very house that became his after his father's murder. No one looked into his father's murder, and no one looked into Youssef's death either, which was perhaps for the best. The saga of Vaqar and his son had drawn to a close with the second murder. The saga was quite familiar to the family elders but they wouldn't recount it to their children; they wouldn't even talk about it with each other. It was a secret, a secret that had been hushed up to protect the family's good name. But discovery of the wedding invitation cards and those letters had confused everyone. No one could believe that Youssef had kept the invites for a wedding that had never taken place or the letters from a young girl now long forgotten. That young girl was Rana, who now, many years later, is struggling with dementia while she tries with all her might to hold on to the memory of Youssef, the love of her life. A love that was doomed since the beginning, yet it is the only thing that helps Rana keep going. The elders are gone now and Rana is the only one who can tell the story, and the only remaining keeper of that long lost world of love, loss, and family secrets.

Download or read book Fragments written by Morgan Gallagher and published by Osier Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken lives and shattered dreams. Two horror short stories: one occult thriller novella. (45, 250 words) Sleet Dreams Maggie can just about survive the winter when it turns the city into a trap of ice and snow. She can juggle her pension, scrimp and scrape, make every penny stretch. Every winter she swears she’ll make it to the south next year. South to where winters are gentle and snow never touches the land, to where the wind will never bite into her bones. This winter all Maggie is dreaming of is a warm coat and a better pair of boots. Maggie finds a fur coat one day, a fine fur coat that keeps her warm, keeps out the winter. But dreams are sometimes nightmares and not all wishes should come true. (11,600 words) Alma Mater Alma is a perfect mother. She knows how to raise a child. Her daughter Catherine will be perfect in every way. Alma will make sure of it. No clingy brat ruling the house with her cries and tricks. No fuss, bother or disturbance. No demands from a greedy baby or sulks from a temper driven toddler. Order and routine from day one will ensure that as Catherine grows, hair will always be neat and homework will always be done. Catherine will know how to behave and what to do and what to say and she will be thin, beautiful, gifted and obedient, and any mother would be proud to have such a daughter. That things may not go to plan never occurs to Alma. Just as it never occurs to her that sometimes you can do a job too well. (6,850 words) The Fool When the body of a young man is found on the altar of the Mother of All Sorrows Church in Peckham, London, the Catholic Church does everything it can to help Scotland Yard in the investigation. It sends an independent investigator from the Office of the Congregation of the Arcane to assist. Maryam Michael isn’t happy, however, with it being London and she’s unhappy that the parish priest she’s supposed to be helping is fast becoming the main suspect. The Vatican is not going to be happy with what was hidden under the body: and neither is the local Mosque. Maryam only has a couple of days to solve the riddle of why this young man died on the altar, and if the supernatural is involved. Can she solve the murder fast enough to prevent Father Wyn Jones being charged? Is it straightforward gang violence, or are there occult forces attacking the Church? (26,800 words)

Download or read book The Love Archives written by Cynthia A. Rodriguez and published by Cynthia A. Rodriguez. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get in, romance readers. We're taking a trip down nostalgia lane to save lives. Welcome to The Love Archives; a romance anthology of bonus scenes, excerpts, extended epilogues, and alternate POVs for your insatiable appetite. The best part? All proceeds go towards helping Palestinian families. So pick your sub-genre or simply enjoy over 120 short stories from some of your favorite romance authors.

Download or read book Resurrection written by Mandy Hager and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final gripping, futuristic Young Adult novel in the bestselling Blood of the Lamb trilogy. 'This book had me on the edge of my seat every time I picked it up and constantly dreading turning the page but unable to stop. Maryam's story once again captivated me. I'm going to recommend this to my friend who has also read the rest of the series and loves it as well.' Danelle,16 Maryam is fighting for her life, freedom and love in this stunning finale to the Blood of the Lamb series. Maryam and Lazarus arrive back at Onewere, and Maryam, is captured while trying to loosen the Apostles' religious stranglehold by showing the people the miraculous remedy. The ruling elite decides to manipulate her return and Lazarus's so-called 'resurrection from the dead' by setting in motion a highly orchestrated pretence of embracing her as the new Messiah - right down to planning her eventual sacrifice and death by crucifixion before a hysterical and brain-washed crowd. In a sequence that mirrors Christ's final hours, Maryam must somehow get the islanders to listen to her plea to start thinking for themselves - eventually managing to stir the independence in their hearts just as she is about to be put to death...

Download or read book SAND SEA CHILD OF TWO WORLDS written by Ann D'Silva and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True love is ever entwined with a higher calling. The majestic Sand “Kum” and the mysterious Sea “Deniz” are immortal lovers, protectors, guardians of the path of Good “Taqwa” against Evil “Fujur”. Since the beginning of mankind, they have been relentlessly watching and aligning the path of true lovers across parallel lives. Özcan Güne?, a young boy with simple desires finds himself on a path conflicting that of his identity. His longing for his soulmate from his dreams grows over the years. Junaid, an unfortunate lad from the war-torn Syrian land, sees his fortunes take a turn when destiny crosses his path with a kind Imam, who offers him education and a better life. Hannah, a Mumbai girl, seeks the love of her life in a faraway land, heeding to the call from her dreams she embarks on a journey to find him, in Turkey. Returning to his home in Syria to be with his family, Junaid meets Bahr (Sea), an orphaned girl, falls in love and marries her albeit through fortunate circumstances and the kindness of many. Soon, the pain of displacement, the vulgarity of loss of life through war, and the suffering of the innocent at the sleeves of ego tear their lives apart. Maryam, the child with magical powers, is fated to change all their lives. She is the nucleus that connects the past and the present. How did she come into Özcan’s life and what is her connection to Hannah? Travel through the portal of Deniz in high tide across parallel lives. Karmic debt follows the protagonists as the war between Fujur and Taqwa brews at the shores of Dalyan and the mystery of the countless grains of sand is revealed. Take this journey to mystical places, sights of historic ruin, swim in the lyrical flow of poetry and much more. Child of Two Worlds is the second book in the Sand & Sea Series.

Download or read book Unimaginable Resilience of a Pen Screen Play written by Shahriar Jahanian and published by Shahriar Jahanian. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is life but a mere road that is hard to travel? The Unimaginable Resilience of a Pen is a historical and true story of bravery and resilience. This is a historical and true story of a girl named Maryam from Iran who is discriminated against and endures numerous other unreasonable pains and suffering only because her thoughts and beliefs are different than others because she thinks differently than others. Her relatives and even her husband are imprisoned or killed if they choose to hold on to their way of thinking, which is the same as hers. She decides to fight back only with a pen. Will she succeed? Read this story to see if the resilience and power of a pen can be more powerful than a weapon.

Download or read book Oath of Office written by Marc Cameron and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President. Jack Ryan confronts unrest in Iran, a deadly strain of flu in the U.S., an unethical senator, and hijacked Russian missiles.

Download or read book Everyday Conversions written by Attiya Ahmad and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad presents us with an original analysis of this phenomenon. Using extensive fieldwork conducted among South Asian migrant women in Kuwait, Ahmad argues domestic workers’ Muslim belonging emerges from their work in Kuwaiti households as they develop Islamic piety in relation—but not opposition—to their existing religious practices, family ties, and ethnic and national belonging. Their conversion is less a clean break from their preexisting lives than it is a refashioning in response to their everyday experiences. In examining the connections between migration, labor, gender, and Islam, Ahmad complicates conventional understandings of the dynamics of religious conversion and the feminization of transnational labor migration while proposing the concept of everyday conversion as a way to think more broadly about emergent forms of subjectivity, affinity, and belonging.

Download or read book Battle Come Down written by Charlie Flowers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain, five minutes into the future. War comes to Tottenham as the Syrian conflict washes back onto our shores, and anarchists of every description bring heavy weaponry onto the streets, arming the local gangs. But they haven't met Riz and the Blackeyes. A terror is about to be unleashed on the gangs that they will have never imagined and they are completely unprepared for. A terror from our own side... As the crisis escalates and violence and atrocity devastate North London, Sergeant Farzana Shaheen and her covert army unit will be tested to breaking point. But can they end the conflict without becoming war criminals themselves? BATTLE COME DOWN is a searing portrayal of future war, from the high-tech networked command centres to the cockpit of an attack helicopter, and right down to the soldier on the ground.

Download or read book In Search of Walid Masoud written by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walid Masoud disappears. A Palestinian intellectual, he has been living in Baghdad since the first Israeli War of 1948. As a member of an organization engaged in the armed struggle against Israel, suspicion arises that he has gone underground as part of a political movement. Masoud leaves behind a lengthy but disconnected tape recording of garbled utterances through which Jabra Ibrahim Jabra artfully crafts the basis for the narration. He transforms the transcription of the tape by each of Masoud’s comrades into a study of character. Through a series of monologues, each becomes a narrator of his own experience. Readers of The Ship (also translated by Adnan Haydar and Roger Allen) will remember the ingenious way the political themes emerge through the dialogue between passengers on a ship crossing the Mediterranean from the Arab to the European world. This novel echoes identical subjects: the misperceptions between Western and Islamic cultures, personal landscape as a shaper of culture, and the necessity of political commitment. A tour de force that places the evolution of the Faulknerian style into a political register, this book is a testament to the brilliance of one of Palestine’s preeminent writers.

Download or read book Tom Clancy Oath of Office written by Marc Cameron and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marine officer. CIA analyst. President. Jack Ryan has devoted his life to protecting the United States. What if this time he can't? President Ryan and the Campus return in this entry to Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series. Freedom may have finally arrived in Iran. As protests break out across the country, the media rejoices over the so-called Persian Spring. Western leaders are ecstatic. Members of Congress and the Cabinet clamor to back the rebels. Only President Jack Ryan remains wary. Meanwhile, he has plenty to handle at home. A deadly strain of flu is ravaging the United States as spring floods decimate the Southeast. An unethical senator wants to bring down the Ryan presidency and is willing to lean on fabricated bot-planted stories to do it. But the scariest story is the most closely guarded one. Two Russian nuclear missiles have been hijacked. The Campus gets its first break when Jack Jr. connects with a rogue Russian intelligence officer in Afghanistan--only to be abducted soon after arriving. John Clark and the rest of the Campus team race to track the missiles and rescue their colleague. As sensationalized stories spin out of control and the stolen missiles remain out of reach, President Ryan's toughest challenge emerges: How do you meet an enemy head on when he won't even show you his face?

Download or read book Foxglove Copse written by Alex Beecroft and published by Riptide Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a massive anxiety attack, Sam Atkins left his high-powered job in the City and committed himself to life on the road in a small van. Six months in, he’s running out of savings and coming to the conclusion that he might have to go home to his emotionally abusive family. Needing time to think, he takes a walk through a copse by the Cornish roadside, only to stumble upon the body of a ritualistically killed sheep. As he’s trying to work out what the symbols around the animal mean, the sheep’s owner, Jennifer, and her nephew, Ruan Gwynn, come upon him. Ruan is a kind-hearted young man with a large supportive clan, and since he and Sam feel almost instant attraction, he doesn’t want to believe Sam is a sheep-killing cultist. In fact, the moment he lays eyes on Sam’s miserable solitary life, he wants to rescue the man. But as the killings escalate, he and Sam need to stop whoever is actually to blame before they can concentrate on saving each other. **See this title's page on RiptidePublishing.com for content warnings.**

Download or read book District VIII written by Adam LeBor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life’s tough for a Gypsy detective in Budapest. The cops don’t trust you and your fellow Gypsies, even your own family, shun you because you’re a cop. But when Balthazar Kovacs, a detective in the city's murder squad, gets a mysterious text, he gulps down his coffee and goes to work. The message has two parts: a photograph and an address. The photograph shows a man, in his early thirties, lying on his back with his eyes open, half-covered by a blue plastic sheet. The address is 26 Republic Square, the former Communist Party headquarters, and once the most feared building in the country. But when Kovacs arrives at Republic Square, the body is gone.Inspired by true events, the novel takes the reader to a hidden city within Budapest and an underworld that visitors never get to see: the gritty back alleys of District VIII; the endemic corruption that reaches deep into government as officials plunder state coffers at will; a rule of law bent to serve the interests of the rich and powerful; the rising power of international organized crime gangs who use the Hungarian capital as a springboard for their European operations; and a troubling look at the ghosts of Communism (and Nazism) that still haunt Budapest.

Download or read book Maryam written by ʻAlawīyah Ṣubḥ and published by Arab List. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alawia Sobh's acclaimed Arabic novel of the Lebanese Civil War is a rare depiction of women's experience across class, sect, and generation in this region-defining conflict. Rich with everyday detail, uncovering the collusions of ordinary and extraordinary violence, and mixing female voices of different ages and beliefs, Sobh's work is not only an illumination of an important historical period at a new scale. It is also a unique meditation on the nature of storytelling. In The Keeper of Stories, stories struggle to survive the erasures of war and to rescue the sweetness of living, and connect the tellers and their audience in sometimes welcome, sometimes maddening ways. The transformation of pain and love into art is both the subject and substance of this necessary new book, sensitively brought into English by a translator who shares aspects of Sobh's background and worked with the author on the translation.

Download or read book Awakening written by Rachel B. Vogelstein and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Tarana Burke. Awakening chronicles the remarkable global impact of the #MeToo movement. Since 2017, millions have joined the global movement known as #MeToo, catalyzing an unprecedented wave of women’s activism powered by technology that reaches across borders, races, religions, and economic divides. Today, women in more than 100 countries are using the hashtag to fight the violence and discrimination they face—and winning. What started as an online campaign against sexual harassment has triggered the most widespread cultural reckoning on women’s rights in history, with global implications for women’s participation in the economy, politics, and across social and cultural life. Awakening is the first book to capture the global impact of this breakthrough movement. Bringing together political analysis and inspiring personal stories from women in seven countries—Brazil, China, Egypt, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sweden, and Tunisia—Awakening takes readers to the front lines of a networked movement that’s fundamentally shifting how women organize for their own equality.